So terrorism is irritating but airport search is horrific
Hope to avoid sharks? Nick Bonyhady, The Sydney Morning Herald, yesterday:
Bishop overboard … Former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop has successfully landed her exit from Wild Oats X as the yacht passed Bondi Beach … “Hopefully I avoid all the other vessels, and sharks, and fish, and jellyfish, and plastic bottles and swimmers” … Ms Bishop said there are no political metaphors at play as she readied to jump ship …
No hope. ACTU secretary Sally McManus tweets, yesterday:
I do believe this is the second time this has happened to Julie Bishop this year #LiberalWomenOverboard #Libspill
Germans mock UK. John Kampfner, The Guardian, December 25:
You know you’ve hit rock bottom when the Germans mock you on prime time TV and the jokes are actually quite funny. Giving Britons this year’s “golden dumbass” prize, Oliver Welke … describes how Theresa May “can’t get out of the EU and can’t even get out of her bloody car”, over pictures of Angela Merkel waiting embarrassedly outside her Berlin residency as the door of our prime minister’s limo fails to open. “Just go!” the host yells. “Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, liquid Brexit, just fog off!” … The audience is falling about laughing.
Who’s laughing? Laura Mowat, TheExpress, December 20:
Head of the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Eric Schweitzer, said: “Brexit threatens massive consequences for the German economy … More than 750,000 jobs in Germany depend on exports to Great Britain” … President of the Germany Industry Federation, Dieter Kempf, said: “We have only got three months left and nobody should be playing games. Without an agreement there is no transition phase, which our companies badly need.”
Searched at an airport? Horrific. Waleed Aly, Network Ten’s The Project, December 19:
I’ve only … (been searched) once … (as) I was trying to leave Israel and … it just went for hours, basically … I did have to undo my jeans. And the thing about it is that you don’t know where it’s going to end. And they explain nothing … So you’re just in this situation, you don’t know why. The power imbalance is horrific … I’ve never left a situation more shaken or angry … We don’t need more of that.
Blown up by a terrorist? Irritating. Aly, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 19, 2013:
US President Barack Obama’s (response to the Boston Marathon bombing) was cool and authoritative … This is a far cry from the kind of hysteria that typically follows a terrorist attack … It’s almost as if we’re dealing with an unfortunate matter of routine … I have two theories on this. The most encouraging one is that we’re finally maturing in the way we handle terrorism. Gone is the triumphalist rhetoric … In its place is a far more sober, pragmatic recognition that terrorism is a perpetual irritant …
Vandals attack goat. Jack Kilbride, ABC News, December 24:
The Swedish city of Gavle (is famous for a 13m-tall straw goat but every year vandals attempt to destroy it) … It’s been burnt down by vandals dressed as Santa and gingerbread men shooting flaming arrows, kicked to pieces … knocked over when a car crashed into it … some vandals even attempted to steal it with a helicopter.
Vandals in Sweden surprising? Ancient-Origins.net, October 24, 2015:
The Vandals originated … in central Sweden.
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